What you can eat is lots of meat and protein and lots and LOTS of vegetables. This is another hard thing for us as neither one of us enjoy a large variety of vegetables (my neighbor Emily will attest to this).
The idea behind this lifestyle (at least as I understand it), is you body spends most of its time burning all of the carbs we put down our gullets. If there are fewer carbs available to burn, your body can focus on burning other things (insert correct nutritional word, I can't think what it is).
At any rate, people who have changed to this diet say they feel a "night and day difference." They "feel" better than when they were eating their old foods and have more energy and find it easier to get up in the morning.
Although I know this will be very hard and right now it seems extremely unlikely we would continue this lifestyle in the future (we hope to at least maintain it for 30 days), I don't think this will be a waste of time. From this diet, I hope to expand my likes with regards to fruits and vegetables, find alternates to dishes I ate pre-primal, and experience for myself the pros and cons of eating primal.
What I ate today:
- Spinach and mushroom omelet for breakfast
- Lunch: Green salad (spinach, mushroom, black olive, slices of chicken breast). No croutons, yes I had some ranch (there are recipes for primal approved ranch dressing, but I was too cheap to buy all of the ingredients, so this is straight up Kraft Ranch Dressing). Couple slices of cheese.
- Dinner: Sausage (not breakfast) and green beans. Oh, and GR grilled some pineapple.
- Box of raisins--not sure if this is approved, has a ton of carbs
- Lots of water! Probably around 60 oz, which is actually lower than what I should have. Something to work on.
Helpful website: http://www.elanaspantry.com/paleo-diet-recipes/.
